Special Events

ENDOWED LECTURES

RUDOLPH H. AND SARA G. WYNER
Courage or Cowardice of American Jews 1932-2012 and Why It Matters

with Professor Ruth R. Wisse
Friday, June 1
5:45 p.m. - QS
6:30 p.m. - Lecture
7:15 p.m. - Oneg followed by Q&A

Ruth R. Wisse has been Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University since 1993. Before that she taught at McGill University where she helped to found the Jewish Studies Department. She was president of the Association for Jewish Studies, 1985-88.

She has written several books on literature including The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey through Literature and Culture, which won the 2003 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship. A frequent commentator on cultural and political affairs, her most recent book on those subjects is Jews and Power (2007).

In 2007 she was awarded the National Medal for the Humanities by President George W. Bush. Her honors include the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Award for Scholarship, 2001, and the Manger Prize for Yiddish Literature, 1988.

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